Use librewolf . I use librewolf and Brave browser if needed .
this post was submitted on 14 Aug 2026
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but ublock as given up on facebook blocking in the future, and reddit's forced app/login is trying to bypass , will bypass ublock eventually
Sometimes I think it was a mistake to let the programs we primarily use to view text and images become bloated virtual machines that execute megabytes of arbitrary code with every page load.
Well, like many other things: it's not so much a "we" as it is a "them".
But maybe we should reboot the whole navigation thing?
If it goes... I don't know what I'll do.
Go out and touch grass probably.
Get a hobby.
Perfect my molotov recipe.
Happy with Librewolf. I can't imagine using my browser everyday if I don't have a good adblocker on it like uBO.
donated for a new cubical poster. w/e year that was. was new and better for a while.
Since there are only two major browsers... one of which admittedly wears many disguises.
Not entirely correct. When we look at engines there are Blink, gecko and webkit. Unless you also count Ladybird's engine I guess.
Yes Blink is a webkit fork but it has been separate for a good while.
Isn't it crazy that Safari and thereby also Chrome/Chromium are at the heart based on work by KDE for its Konqueror?
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donated 20 euro right away. HEROES.
Nothing comes close to firefox
Alternate headline: Firefox is now the only browser worth using.
And in any case, lumping Firefox as one browser is disingenuous. There are numerous Firefox forks, just like every other major browser is in fact a Google Chromium fork.
Every boardroom has their price.
Someday.
I'm not so sure about that, Ublock is the reason I use Firefox, and I don't think I'm alone in that. And I'm pretty sure they know that.
Does opera not support ublock?
It's been Chromium based for ages now. Meaning they'll likely eventually stop supporting manifest V2 too, unless Google makes it easy for them to keep supporting it.
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Worst part is google could kill Firefox at anytime because they provide a very large amount of Mozilla’s funding.
No, not really. Firefox and Gecko are crucial for Google to avoid being broken up by regulators. They have to keep Firefox alive for that reason.
True although how true the statement is, in the US at least, is in doubt given the current government leadership and direction.
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I.e. it is the last usable browser.
I tried browsing the internet without uBlock Origin. I hated it in 5 minutes. I'm not going back to there anytime again. If your browser does not support uBlock Origin, then I am not using it.
Right? I just set up a new phone and had Firefox installed but no extensions yet. Had to search something and the website I ended up on was plastered in ads. Is this how some people actually live? I closed the site and installed uBlock Origin and then went back to the same site. Holy shit, night and day difference.
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